As a partial government shutdown looms, Vice President J.D. Vance has recently made his thoughts clear on where he believes the government should be in terms of spending.

According to Breitbart, the vice president recently made his thoughts on the matter clear during an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, stating that while he supports the current spending plan, he does not think the government should be spending anywhere near its current level. 

Vance also conceded that negotiations play a significant role in passing spending bills, as 60 votes are required in the Senate, and Republicans must recruit at least seven Democrats to vote with them to pass spending legislation.

The vice president's candid comments come at the same time President Donald Trump was set to meet with top Democratic leaders regarding a potential shutdown.

What did he say?

Vance justifiably complained about the insane levels of spending that Democrats want, to include spending on illegal aliens and other issues that aren't American priorities.

"Democrats, their whole argument is, we are going to shut down the government unless you give a trillion dollars for medical benefits for illegal aliens," Vance said.

He vowed that the Republican side would not be "taken hostage" by such demands.

“Look, we’re not going to be taken hostage by the Democrats’ desperate desire to give your tax money to illegal aliens, we’re just not going to do it," Vance said.

That's when Vance suggested that if it were up to him, we'd be spending much less than what the current spending bill allows, which was passed by Republicans earlier this year.

"By the way, Laura, the bill that we put out there that was passed by the Republican Congress is just a continuation of the current levels of government funding, by the way, Laura, I don’t even like that. I think the government should be spending less money," he told Ingraham.

Downfalls of negotiating

The vice president explained the difficulties of negotiating with Democrats when Republicans need a handful of them to get anything passed.

"But we recognize that we have to because the Democrats control 47 seats in the Senate, we recognize we need 60 total votes, that means we have to get seven Democrats. And that means we have to get something that the Democrats can actually vote for," he said.

"If you can’t get seven Democrats to vote for a clean continuing resolution, if you can’t get seven Democrats who won’t shut down the government because they’re so concerned about not providing benefits to illegal aliens, then what are we supposed to do?"

Only time will tell if Republicans find a way to get a bill that makes all sides somewhat happy.